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I believe streaming is not capped by design. The problem is WMP doesn't actually play streaming video, it gets the whole file before starting. I suppose you have to download it first to the machine, then play it with WMP, or else use videolan or some player that plays streaming video.

Now I believe it even more. ;)

Windows Media Player version 6 will do streaming video (not download the whole file before playing it). It should be in the \\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\ directory as mplayer2.exe, regardless of which version of Windows Media Player is currently installed.

I just tried to stream with Windows Media Player version 6 but it downloaded the whole show first.

Are there some settings I need to change?

skinsfan05

Interesting stuff here.

when I point dvarchive at "C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe" The video plays with Windows media player 9.00.00

when I point dvarchive at "C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media Player\\mplayer2.exe" The video plays with windows media player 6.4.09

In both cases, after the video begins playing, I can leave it playing in the background and flip over to the DVA download screen which shows (direct cut and paste here):

Bed Room .Hack/Sign - Folklore 1% 00:05:52 Streaming show 916.41MB 2.56MB/s Transferring

Can someone sugest a better player for a Win2K system.

It is interesting to note that my experiments with the 4080 show that it can record 1 show (med quality), play back another (med quality), and stream to my PC at this speed just fine.

But when the replay is loaded this heavily, any attemps to use the remote causes the replay to crash and reboot.

mlinehan out

WMP (any version) will ONLY play streaming MPEG-2 if you have the Elecard codec/DS filters installed. It is shareware from http://www.moonlight.co.il/cons_player.php . After the trial period expires, it will nag you with a bouncing box in the video window unless you register it or use another MPEG-2 decoder...


The best streaming player is still IMO VideoLAN VLC (www.videolan.org), and it is free.

Unfortunately. I'm glad to have it and grateful it exists, but just find something else to do for a while, download the video and use reVue.

Don't forget to really crank up your TCP Receive Window (RWIN) in order to get smooth streaming. DSLReports.com has a utility (DRTCP.exe) to change it as well as test tools to see what it is vs. what it should be.

Thing is that DSLReports calculated my RWIN should be about 14000 (rounded cuz of my bad memory). But in order for VLC to work reliably, I had to crank RWIN up to 64240.

I've done some testing, and I've found that the key component that is preventing streaming is the mpeg2 splitter/demuxer which gets installed by DirectX 9. This is the same thing that causes problems with commercial advance timing in reVue.

If I have mpg2splt.ax version 6.3.1.881 from DirectX 8 registered, then I can stream in mplayer2.exe, (although it fails more often than it works). Typically it works the 1st time, and then the next time I get a "pins can't connect" error), and I have to reboot before it will stream again.

So, I decided to check out what it was about the Elecard codec that made it work. Turns out if you register ONLY the Elecard version of the mpeg2 splitter (c:\\program files\\common files\\moonlight\\mpeg2dmx.ax) instead of the DirectX mpg2splt.ax, then mplayer2.exe will stream just fine using your standard DVD software's codecs. The trick is

1) get the mpeg2dmx.ax file from the Elecard install
2) copy mpeg2dmx.ax to c:\\windows\\system32
3) uninstall Elecard (so things revert back to the standard DVD codec)
4) start up a command prompt
5) cd c:\\windows\\system32
6) regsvr32 -u mpg2splt.ax
7) regsvr32 mpeg2dmx.ax

Then all should be well with mplayer2.exe. Media Player 9 still won't stream, but mplayer2.exe does a decent job. You can't seek, but the quality is better than VLC. Plus, since you are using your normal DVD codecs, you aren't subject to the demo timer built into the Elecard codec. Plus, low/standard quality images show up in the proper aspect ratio.

(edit) Tip: Use the GSpot utility to see what codecs you have installed. Open an mpepg file and click the "render" button to see what codecs get used. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

FlipFlop:

I have Win98se and have also been using older WMP and elecard since it has worked the best for me. I followed your instructions but had some variations. My mpg2splt.ax was in the windows system folder not windows system32. I unregistered it as per your instructions w/out problems. I uninstalled elecard via control panel (it was called Elecard player I think). I had tried to registed mpeg2dmx.ax which was in the window system32 folder but I got an error that says bad command or file name. I checked with the dir command and the file is there. Also if I try to stream it seems that the elecard codecs are still there and the aspect ratio of standard and medium are messed up as always.
Any ideas????

Al

If regsvr32.exe is not in your path you will have to explicitly specify the path to it:

FlipFlop & others:

I have follow-up for my prior problem. For some reason, I needed to set the active directory as windows\\system even though the file mpreg2dmx.ax is in my windows\\system32 folder and I was able to register the file. I also found that a program in my control panel add/remove was UDP stream player which allows you to register or unregister elecard filters. I unregistered them all except for Elecard MPEG2 Multiplexer. I can now stream with standard quality with the older WNP and it has the proper aspect ratio. The only problem is that my video stream is not as good as it was with all the elecard filters/codecs.
Can people who are streaming from DVArchive with the older WMP or other players give what codecs/filters they are using (not elecard) to hopefully figure out what combination works the best on most machines.

Al

Why do I get the following error messages?

REPLAY_DEVICE:: Fixed bad ReplayTV name [Master Be...], now using [Master Be___]

Warn: ReplayTV Device at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Reported name of Master Be... which is known bad. DVA Fixed this to Master Be___

Thanks for your help

JAH

double post

I think I am having a problem with the server.. I can't start the DVArchive server if my IIS server is running. Let me give a little history on my setup:

One NIC card with 3 bound IP's:

NIC1

192.168.1.88 - IIS
192.168.1.89 - IIS
192.168.1.90 - IP override set for this address in DVArchive

The DVArchive server won't start if IIS is running. If I shutdown IIS websites the DVArrchive server will start.. Previous 2.1 version was running on the same server fine with the same config.

I guess it's a BUG???

You didn't mention your OS, but...

for windows 2000:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...p/apro9zon.htm

for windows server 2003:
http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/i...etpooling.html

The problem is in the socket pooling.

I've never had this problem on a *nix platform *grin*

Thanks Gerry for your reply